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Critical Notice: Patrick Suppes' Probabilistic Metaphysics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2022

Isaac Levi
Isaac Levi*
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy Columbia University
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Extract

In the introduction to Probabilistic Metaphysics (1984), Patrick Suppes declares his intention to refute each of five central tenets of “neotraditional metaphysics”. These tenets run as follows:

  1. (1) The future is determined by the past.

  2. (2) Every event has a sufficient determinant cause.

  3. (3) Knowledge must be grounded in certainty.

  4. (4) Scientific knowledge can in principle be made complete.

  5. (5) Scientific knowledge and method can in principle be unified.

Type
Research Article
Information
Philosophy of Science , Volume 55 , Issue 4 , December 1988 , pp. 646 - 652
Copyright
Copyright © 1988 by the Philosophy of Science Association

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REFERENCE

Suppes, P. (1984), Probabilistic Metaphysics. Oxford: Blackwell.Google Scholar